Knitted web.



No. 864,440. PATENTED AUG. 27, 1907.

L. N. 1). WILLIAMS.

KNITTED'WBB.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1907.

the fabric, and manner inwhich the fabric is produced.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS N n. WILLIAMS, or OGONTZ, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TOROBERT w.

' soor'r, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW JERSEY.

KNITTED WEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Aug. 27, 1907.

Application filed January 10,1907. seen No. 851,678. f

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, a citizen Scott and myself asassignees of David .C. Bellis, theobject of my present invention beingto produce a backing web which is better adapted for the production of afleece than is the backing web of the patented fabric.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is an exaggerated View of a pieceof my improved fabric looking at the face side of the same; Fig. 2 is aview illustrating the appearance of the-exposed face of the back web ofFigs. 3 and 4 are views illustrating the The fabric forming the subjectof the'aforesaid Letters Patent No. 709,734, comprised two webs, oneoverlying the other and united at intervals by a loop of the yarn of oneweb engaging the other web, and the fabric forming the subject of mypresent invention is of a similar character, thus in Fig. l of thedrawing, 1 represents the face web and 2 theback web, the stitches ofthe face web being shaded in order to more clearly distinguish them fromthe stitches of the back web, which .are unshaded. The two webs areconnected at intervals, as shown at 3, by loops of yarn of the face webengaging with wales of the back web, although any of the othermodifications of the tying structure, such as illustrated a in saidBellis patent, may be used, if desired. The distinction between thefabric forming the subject of mypresent invention and that of theBellispatent is that in my improved'fabric the stitches of both webs aredrawn in the same direction, whereas in the Bellis fabric the stitchesof the face web were drawn tothe front face and the stitches of the backweb were drawn to the back face of the fabric; The exposed face of-thegigging the yarn of which the said back web was composed, but when thestitches of the back web are drawn towards the front face of the fabric,in accordance with ,my invention, the exposed face of said back webpresents a surface composed wholly of loops, as shown in combined withthe usual cams for reciprocating the same for knitting purposes, andwith one or more yarn feeds for each set of needles, the yarn feed forthe needles 4 being represented at 4 in Fig. 4, and the yarn feed forthe needles 5 being represented at 5* in 3.- Although my invention isapplicable either to straight or to circular machines I will, forconvenience, refer to the needle carrier 4 as a cylinder and to theneedle carrier 5 as a dia Owing to the fact that both the cylinder anddial needles draw their stitches in the same direction the web producedby thedial needlesoverlies that pro duced upon the cylinder needles andit is necessary to cylinder needles may rise to receive the yarn fromthe yarn guide 4*. For this reason the dial needles are projected clearof the dial 5 and to a point beyond the cylinder needles 4 wherever oneof the yarn feeds 4" occurs,

- the needles are of the character of those in the machine 1906, by useof a special cam for effecting abnormal proje'ction of the needles or ifthe needles are of the ordinary type having butts for the-action of theknitting cams. They may, by the action of suitable jacks, such as thoseshown in Patent No. 577,789, dated Feb. 23, 1897, be projected, beforethey reach each feed 4 into aspecial dial on the inside of theneedlecarrier 4 and returned by another set of jacks after they havepassed the yarn feeding device.

In order to effect the tying of two webs together se-. lected dialneedles may be only partially projected as shown by dotted lines in Fig.4 instead of being fully projected as shown by full'lines in saidfigure, whereby .said partially projected dial needles will receive theloops of said yarnwhich will be cast off from said special needles withtheir stitches at the next dial yarn feed 5. v

' I claim:-

the other and united at intervals by yarn 0! one web engaging the otherweb, bo'th webs having their stitches facing in the same direction.

fabric, said mode consisting in knitting two webs by two sets ofneedles, both of which draw'stitches inthe same direction, anddisplacing the overlying web when the needles are being operated to knitthe other web.

specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' LOUIS N.D. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses: r i ii HAMILTON D. Tuanln, KAT! A. BEADLI.

as shown in Fig. 4. This may be readily accomplished if In testimonywhereof, I have signed my name to this '65 get thid overlying web out ofthe way in order that the shown in R. W. Scotts Patent No. 834,763,October 30,.

knitting yarn fed to the cylinder needles and will form I 1. A knittedfabric comprising two webs, one overlying 2. The mode herein describedolproducing a knitted

